There are at least three different versions of Encarta 96.

Microsoft Encarta 96
Microsoft Encarta 96 MPEG Edition
Microsoft Encarta 96 Digital Authoring Studio (MPEG) Sony RTE-3000

The differences between MPEG Edition and Sony RTE-3000 seem to be in the quality of the videos only, and the difference is minimal. However, the Sony RTE-3000 videos seem to look slightly better than the MPEG edition, which is much higher
quality than the standard edition.

In improving the video quality over the standard edition, some things were lost. The video quantity went from 56 down to 40, and from 8 Interactivities to 7.

Disc space became less of an issue with Deluxe Editions and then subsequent DVDs. I do not have time to compare all of the editions, but I am uploading this version of Encarta 96 because it seems to be very rare.

There also seems to be a Compton Encyclopedia 96 which also uses the exact same Sony RTE-3000 encoding for its videos as it says on a picture of the disc I saw.

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